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ELMCIP COMPUTING LITERATURE A book series by the Center for Literary Computing at West Virginia University, in collaboration with the Laboratoire Paragraphe at the Université Paris VIII - Vincennes Saint-Denis, and in a distribution agreement with the West Virginia University Press. VOLUME 1 Regards Croisés: Perspectives on Digital Literature Edited by Philippe Bootz and Sandy Baldwin VOLUME 2 Writing Under: Selections from the Internet Text by Alan Sondheim Edited and Introduced by Sandy Baldwin VOLUME 3 Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice: A Report from the HERA Joint Research Project Edited by Scott Rettberg and Sandy Baldwin SERIES EDITORS Sandy Baldwin, West Virginia University Philippe Bootz, University of Paris VIII EDITORIAL BOARD Laura Borràs Castanyer, University of Barcelona Helen Burgess, University of Maryland – Baltimore County Maria Engberg, Blekinge Technical Institute Jason Nelson, Griffith University Alexandra Saemmer, University of Paris VIII Janez Strehovec, University of Ljubljana ELMCIP ELECTRONIC LITERATURE AS A MODEL OF CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN PRACTICE A REPORT FROM THE HERA JOINT RESEARCH PROJECT EDITED BY SCOTT RETTBERG AND SANDY BALDWIN Computing Literature, the Center for Literary Computing, Morgantown, WV 26506 Published 2014 by the Center for Literary Computing and ELMCIP. This Work, ELMCIP Electronic Literature as a model of creativity and Innovation in practice: A Report from the HERA Joint Research Project, is licensed as Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Public License (CC BY-NC 4.0). ISBN-13: 978-82-999089-3-1 (pb) 978-82-999089-4-8 (elec) 978-82-999089-5-5 (pdf) iv ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ELMCIP is financially supported by the HERA Joint Research Programme (www.heranet.info) which is co-funded by AHRC, AKA, DASTI, ETF, FNR, FWF, HAZU, IRCHSS, MHEST, NWO, RANNIS, RCN, VR and The European Commission FP7 2007-2013, under the Socio-economic Sciences and Humani- ties programme. We also acknowledge the support of the Research Council of Norway’s VERDIKT and småforksmidler programmes, NORSTORE, and the University of Bergen’s SPIRE programme, which have enabled the extension of aspects of the ELMCIP project. Project Leader Scott Rettberg would like to thank the Department of Re- search Management, the Faculty of the Humanities, and the Department of Lin- guistic, Literary and Aesthetics Studies at the University of Bergen for their sup- port of this endeavor. Special thanks are due to members of the Bergen Electronic Literature Research Group, who have put exceptional effort in the development of the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. PhD students Patricia To- maszek, Elisabeth Nesheim, and Álvaro Seiça merit special praise for their dedi- cation to this project. I also extend my thanks to my friend and colleague Sandy Baldwin and the team at the CLC at West Virginia University for their tireless work on this publication. Finally I thank Jill Walker Rettberg and our children Aurora, Jessica, and Benjamin for their love and support of my work on the EL- MCIP project during the past five years. Sandy Baldwin would like thank the West Virginia University Press for generous support in distributing this publication, and to the following CLC staff who worked on this publication: Jonathan Cook, Jonathan Miltenberger, Andrew Lovejoy, Kassandra Roberts, Christina Seymour, Kristen Talerico, and Tiffany Zerby. Of course, thanks as well to Kathleen, Cara, and Cameron. v vi TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION 1 by Scott Rettberg SEMINAR REPORTS 39 ELECTRONIC LITERATURE COMMUNITIES 41 by Patricia Tomaszek and Jill Walker Rettberg ELECTRONIC LITERATURE PUBLISHING PRACTICES 57 by Raine Koskimaa ELECTRONIC LITERATURE PEDAGOGIES 69 By Maria Engberg E-LITERATURE AND NEW MEDIA ART 87 by Janez Strehovec POETICS IN DIGITAL COMMUNITIES AND DIGITAL LITERATURE 101 By Yra van Dijk vii ELECTRONIC LITERATURE WITH/IN PERFORMANCE 125 by Jerome Fletcher PROJECT REPORTS 143 ELMCIP ANTHOLOGY OF EUROPEAN 145 ELECTRONIC LITERATURE by Maria Engberg and Talan Memmott THE HYPERSTITIAL POETICS OF NETWORK MEDIA 153 by Simon Biggs ELECTRONIC LITERATURE PUBLISHING AND 177 DISTRIBUTION IN EUROPE by Markku Eskelinen, Raine Koskimaa, and Giovanna di Rosario ETHNOGRAPHIES OF CO-CREATION AND COLLABORATION 233 AS MODELS OF CREATIVITY by Penny Travlou THE ELMCIP KNOWLEDGE BASE 293 by Scott Rettberg with Eric Dean Rasmussen viii APPENDICES 341 APPENDIX A: ALL PEER-REVIEW PUBLICATIONS 343 EMERGING FROM THE ELMCIP PROJECT APPENDIX B: DISSEMINATION AND KNOWLEDGE 365 EXCHANGE ACTIVITIES AUTHOR BIOGRAPHIES 379 ix x CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN PRACTICE INTRODUCTION SCOTT RETTBERG 1.1 SUMMARY Electronic Literature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice (ELMCIP) was a three-year collaborative research project running from 2010-2013, funded by the Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) JRP for Creativity and Innovation. ELMCIP involved seven European academic research partners and one non-academic partner who investigated how creative communities of practitioners form within a transnational and transcultural context in a globalized and distributed communication environment. Focusing on the electronic liter- ature community in Europe as a model of networked creativ- ity and innovation in practice, ELMCIP intended both to study the formation and interactions of that community and also to further electronic literature research and practice in Europe. The ELMCIP project’s stated objectives were to: • Understand how creative communities form and interact through distributed media • Document and evaluate various models and forces of creative com- munities in the field of electronic literature • Examine how electronic literature communities benefit from current educational models and develop pedagogical tools • Study how electronic literature manifests in conventional cultural contexts and evaluate the effects of distributing and exhibiting e-lit in such contexts. 1 ELMCIP REPORT PROJECT THEMES AND OUTCOMES Within this broader frame, the themes ELMCIP investigated included: the forma- tion of creative and scholarly communities of practice around different factors such as language, region, genre, platform, events, and institutions; different publishing models for electronic literature and the history of electronic literature publishing in Europe; pedagogical models for teaching, researching and institu- tionalizing electronic literature in different disciplinary contexts and institutional environments; the connections between electronic literature and other modali- ties of digital arts practice; the applicability of traditional and contemporary literary theory and models of poetics to electronic literature; electronic literature as a performance practice; and models of curating, publishing, and exhibiting electronic literature in diverse contexts including books, online publications, live performance, and gallery exhibitions. ELMCIP project outcomes included: Case studies, reports, and research papers. Scholarly outputs included spe- cial issues of journals: Dichtung Digital, Performance Research Journal, Prim- erjalna književnost; and books: Remediating the Social, and Electronic Lit- erature as a Model of Creativity and Innovation in Practice, and dozens of peer-reviewed ar- ticles in scholarly journals. Ma- jor reports, such as an extensive report on electronic literature publishing venues, an ethno- graphic study of network art communities, and a technical white paper detailing the pro- duction of a digital humanities research platform, are also sig- nificant outputs of the project. Series of public seminars and workshops. The ELMCIP project orga- nized seven different international conferences addressing specific research themes including Electronic Literature Communities (Bergen), Electronic Literature Publishing (Jyväskylä), Electronic Literature Pedagogy (Karl- 2 CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION IN PRACTICE skrona), E-Literature and New Media Art (Ljubljana), Databases and Bib- liographic Standards for Electronic Literature (Bergen), Digital Poetics and the Present (Amsterdam), and Digital Textuality with/in Performance (Bristol). A major international conference including performances and an exhibi- tion. The Remediating the Social conference and exhibition including pan- els and public exhibition of peer-review commissioned electronic literature, artworks, and performances at Edinburgh College of Art and New Media, Scotland. The event was thoroughly documented with a book / exhibition catalog, full video and photographic documentation, and a documentary. The Electronic Literature Knowledge Base. An extensive open-access cross-referenced bibliographic and documentation research platform for the field of electronic literature, the ELMCIP Electronic Literature Knowl- edge Base: http://elmcip.net/knowledgebase now includes more than 9,000 records documenting authors, works, critical writing, events, publishers, or- ganizations, archives, and teaching resources. After three years of develop- ment it is now the leading online research resource in the international field. The ELMCIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature. With the ELM- CIP Anthology of European Electronic Literature: http://anthology.elmcip.net the project published eighteen works of European electronic literature in ten differ- ent European languages on USB drives (for archiving and Creative Commons- licensed sharing) and on an accessible website, including pedagogical materials. Video documentaries.